Citation:

PANGAEA.995402

Name: Chronology from IODP Sites 339-U1385 and 339-U1386 covering the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
Published: 2026-06-22
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: IODP; North Atlantic Westerlies; pollen data; Southwestern Iberia; Subtraopical Eastern North Atlantic; vegetation changes

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Published: 2026-06-22 • DOI registered: 2026-06-22

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Abstract:

The chronology data are from IODP Sites U1385 and U1386 collected in 2011 on southwestern Iberian margin as part of the Expedition 339 aboard the JOIDES Resolution. The primary objective was to document paleoclimatic and paleoceanic changes in the subtropical Eastern North Atlantic over the Quaternary. We present 40 chronology tie points based on visual correlation with the LR04 stack (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), precession tunning (Hodell et al., 2015), with an additional control point based on the disappearance of large Gephyrocapsa forms dated to ~1240 ka within the interval 410-466 c-mcd.

Keyword(s):

IODP; North Atlantic Westerlies; pollen data; Southwestern Iberia; Subtraopical Eastern North Atlantic; vegetation changes

Supplement to:

Quan, Xiaowen; Sanchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda; Yin, Qiuzhen; Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie; Moal-Darrigade, Paul; Polanco-Martínez, Josué M; Wu, Zhipeng; Bahr, André; Ducassou, Emmanuelle; Lourens, Lucas Joost (accepted): Insolation-driven northern Atlantic westerly wind patterns shaped the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in three phases. Nature Communications

Quan, Xiaowen; Sanchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda; Yin, Qiuzhen; Wu, Zhipeng (submitted): Eccentricity and ice-volume control of millennial variability in North Atlantic westerlies during the Middle Pleistocene Transition. Communications Earth & Environment

References:

Hodell, David A; Lourens, Lucas Joost; Crowhurst, Simon J; Konijnendijk, Theodoor Yuri Martij; Tjallingii, Rik; Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco Jose; Skinner, Luke C; Tzedakis, Polychronis C (2015): A reference time scale for Site U1385 (Shackleton Site) on the SW Iberian Margin. Global and Planetary Change, 133, 49-64, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.07.002

Lisiecki, Lorraine E; Raymo, Maureen E (2005): A Pliocene-Pleistocene stack of 57 globally distributed benthic d18O records. Paleoceanography, 20, PA1003, https://doi.org/10.1029/2004PA001071

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 37.199708 * Median Longitude: -8.940513 * South-bound Latitude: 36.828000 * West-bound Longitude: -10.126027 * North-bound Latitude: 37.571416 * East-bound Longitude: -7.755000

Minimum Elevation: -2587.0 m * Maximum Elevation: -561.0 m

Event(s):

339-U1385 * Latitude: 37.571416 * Longitude: -10.126027 * Elevation: -2587.0 m * Campaign: (Mediterranean Outflow) * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Composite Core (COMPCORE)

339-U1386 * Latitude: 36.828000 * Longitude: -7.755000 * Elevation: -561.0 m * Campaign: (Mediterranean Outflow) * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Composite Core (COMPCORE)

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Depth, composite revised, corrected	Depth corr cr	crmcd	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Lisiecki & Raymo (2005) [LR04]	Based on LR04 stack tunning (IODP Site 339-U1385)
2	AGE	Age	ka BP	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Lisiecki & Raymo (2005) [LR04]	Geocode – Based on LR04 stack tunning (IODP Site 339-U1385)
3	Depth, composite revised, corrected	Depth corr cr	crmcd	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Lisiecki & Raymo (2005) [LR04]	Based on LR04 stack tunning (IODP Site 339-U1386)
4	AGE	Age	ka BP	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Lisiecki & Raymo (2005) [LR04]	Geocode – Based on LR04 stack tunning (IODP Site 339-U1386)
5	Depth, composite revised, corrected	Depth corr cr	crmcd	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Hodell et al. (2015)	Based on precession tunning (IODP Site 339-U1385)
6	AGE	Age	ka BP	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Hodell et al. (2015)	Geocode – Based on precession tunning (IODP Site 339-U1385)
7	Depth, composite revised, corrected	Depth corr cr	crmcd	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Hodell et al. (2015)	Based on LR04 stack tunning (IODP Site 339-U1386)
8	AGE	Age	ka BP	Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie	Age model according to Hodell et al. (2015)	Geocode – Based on LR04 stack tunning (IODP Site 339-U1386)

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

36 data points

Data

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